Fuerza Aérea de EE.UU. (USAF)

[Orel]

Dentro de las pruebas para despliegues con medios austeros, alta dispersión de medios, etc. (programa ACE...) un F-15E ha aterrizado en una pista de carreteo:
https://twitter.com/alert5/status/1760855955397558297

[Orel]

Parece una tontería pero no lo es: este proyecto reduce los tiempos de procesado de cargas para aviones en un 90%. Se trata de una plataforma de transporte por tierra autónoma que además incluye sensores láser y báscula para medir y pesar la carga al mismo tiempo que la traslada, de ahí el ahorro, antes se tenía que hacer manualmente y con la carga "desmontada y parada", claro:

USAF embraces automation with Project Kinetic Cargo
This initiative leverages deployable automated cargo measuring systems (DACMS) equipped with profiling lasers and scales.
https://alert5.com/2024/02/27/usaf-embr ... tic-cargo/

[Vorlon]

Siguen "sugiriendo" mas de 100 Raider.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/strat ... ore-b-21s/

Va a ser el avión de ataque estandar de la USAF.

[Lazarus]

Siguen "sugiriendo" mas de 100 Raider.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/strat ... ore-b-21s/

Va a ser el avión de ataque estandar de la USAF.

Seguramente, por economia de escala y logistica del mantenimiento, les acabe saliendo a cuenta usarlo para substituir toda la flota de bombarderos: B-52, B-1 y B-2 ?

[Pathfinder]

https://twitter.com/AlexHollings52/stat ... 9888230761

[Vorlon]

El RQ180 se supone que es el sustituto del U2, que comienza a darse de baja.
Se supone igualmente que esta en servicio con dos escuadrones en Beale AFB (74 y 427 RS) aunque no hay confirmación alguna.

No se la escala pero me parece enorme, del tamaño del B21 salvo supuestamente otra vez monomotor.

Por otra :
Siguiente ala de la ANG que se despide a final de año de sus Warthog.
Pasa a ser Ala Cibernética.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-f ... r-mission/

[Orel]

Solicitud de Presupuesto de Defensa de EEUU para el año fiscal 2025, pongo aquí varias noticias y luego las reparto por sus temas.
Como detalle, destacan que excepcionalmente la fuerza aérea supera en presupuesto al US Army.

Pentagon Budget 2025: USAF requests USD217.5 billion in FY2025, up USD3 billion from FY 2024
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... om-fy-2024

The USAF's FY 2025 presidential budget request includes the acquisition of at least 90 aircraft and helicopters and hundreds of missiles
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... elicopters

The USAF is requesting to retire 250 aircraft in FY 2025
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... 0-aircraft

USAF funds HACM but not ARRW
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... evelopment

US Navy requests USD16.6 billion to procure 75 aircraft and helicopters
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... elicopters

US Navy continues F-35 investments, but rephases F/A-XX
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/air- ... ases-fa-xx

Saludos

[champi]

Solicitud de Presupuesto de Defensa de EEUU para el año fiscal 2025, pongo aquí varias noticias y luego las reparto por sus temas.

Pongo los enlaces a la página oficial: https://comptroller.defense.gov/Budget- ... /#detailed

US Army Budget Documentation: https://www.asafm.army.mil/Budget-Materials/

US Navy Budget Documentation: https://www.secnav.navy.mil/fmc/Pages/F ... -2025.aspx

US Air Force Budget Documentation: https://www.saffm.hq.af.mil/FM-Resource ... dget-FY25/

El resumen de los programas más importantes: https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals ... w_Book.pdf


Municiones:

[Vorlon]

Boeing de mal en peor...

Se retrasa el sistema de visión remota del KC46.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/kc-46 ... ayed-2026/
Se retrasa el T7. al final la tan cacareada revolución digital no es tal.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-f ... roduction/

[alejandro_]

Se retrasa el T7. al final la tan cacareada revolución digital no es tal

En multas/penalizaciones ya le ha costado a Boeing 1.446 millones de $

- 2018: 691 millones de $ por ganar el concurso T-X
- 2022: 552 millones de $ por las opciones para producción y 203 por la fase EMD (Engineering, Manufacturing and Development)

La de 2018 no se explica el porqué, quizás sea un desajuste en la oferta presentada, o la diferencia entre lo que pensaban obtener y el valor del contrato.

[Orel]

Solicitud de Presupuesto de Defensa de EEUU para el año fiscal 2025, pongo aquí varias noticias y luego las reparto por sus temas.
Como detalle, destacan que excepcionalmente la fuerza aérea supera en presupuesto al US Army.

Pentagon Budget 2025: USAF requests USD217.5 billion in FY2025, up USD3 billion from FY 2024
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... om-fy-2024

The USAF's FY 2025 presidential budget request includes the acquisition of at least 90 aircraft and helicopters and hundreds of missiles
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... elicopters

The USAF is requesting to retire 250 aircraft in FY 2025
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... 0-aircraft

USAF funds HACM but not ARRW
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... evelopment

US Navy requests USD16.6 billion to procure 75 aircraft and helicopters
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... elicopters

US Navy continues F-35 investments, but rephases F/A-XX
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/air- ... ases-fa-xx

Saludos

US Air Force cuts fighter acquisition goals for 2025
14 March 2024
In its fiscal year 2025 budget request, the US Air Force reveals it plans to acquire fewer F-15EXs, temporarily slow the pace of F-35 purchases and spend billions of dollars developing a sixth-generation fighter and autonomous jets to support the new platform.
https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing ... 75.article

Saludos

[Vorlon]

Nuevamente se recorta la flota de MH139 Grey Wolf.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/usaf- ... ter-fleet/

Para lograr tal reducción, la Fuerza Aérea ha decidido desplegar únicamente el MH-139 en sus tres bases de misiles balísticos intercontinentales:

Base de la Fuerza Aérea FE Warren, Wyoming.
Base de la Fuerza Aérea Malmstrom, Mont.
Base de la Fuerza Aérea Minot, Dakota del Norte
Las tres bases seguirán recibiendo los 11 helicópteros previstos inicialmente, añadió la portavoz. Malmstrom recibió recientemente su primer MH-139, dando la bienvenida al Lobo Gris el 9 de marzo. Está previsto que reciba su dotación completa para el verano de 2025.

Además, la escuela del MH-139 seguirá estando en la Base de la Fuerza Aérea Maxwell, Alabama, donde está previsto que reciba su primer helicóptero de 10,este mes.

[Orel]

AC-130 Gunship’s Laser Weapon Cancelled, 105mm Howitzer May Be Removed

The AC-130J was set to get the first operational airborne laser weapon, but that plan is over as the gunship changes to ensure its relevance.

The U.S. Air Force has scrapped plans to flight test an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship armed with a laser directed energy weapon after years of delays. The Airborne High Energy Laser AHEL program for the AC-130J had for a time looked set to become the U.S. military's first operational aerial laser directed weapon. This all also comes amid a review of the AC-130J's current and future planned capabilities, which could see the gunships lose their 105mm howitzers, as part of a broader shift away from counter-insurgency operations to planning for a high-end fight.

https://www.twz.com/air/ac-130-gunships ... be-removed

[Orel]

Lo pongo aquí pero es de USAF, USNavy y USArmy:

Congress gives extra $3bn to Pentagon for aircraft procurement

After months of disagreement left the Pentagon operating without a full 2024 budget, lawmakers in Washington have agreed to a defence spending plan.
Notably, the fiscal year 2024 budget passed by the Congress provides a significant boost to aircraft procurement, with an additional $3 billion on top of the $40.6 billion requested by the Pentagon.

most notably the addition of $1.8 billion to purchase 10 new P-8 Poseidon MPA for the US Navy (USN).

the E-7 Wedgetail AEW&C is also getting a boost. Congress is providing the US Air Force (USAF) with an extra $200 million

an extra $413 million approved by Congress to cover two more E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes... the service is interested in acquiring six additional aircraft to reach a total fleet size of 125 Hawkeyes.

the navy is receiving $675 million to purchase five additional Bell-Boeing CMV-22. The funds will move the USN toward its CMV-22 target of a 48-aircraft fleet.

extra $221 million for the US Army to buy more Chinook heavy-lift helicopters from Boeing, including both the CH-47F and MH-47G special operations variant. The army had already requested $221 million for six Chinooks in 2024

The USAF also received $400 million in the 2024 budget to fund 10 more Sikorsky HH-60W CSAR... While the USAF had originally sought to acquire 113, service leaders had tried to end procurement of the type in 2023 with a total fleet of just 75 aircraft.

Congress also approved an extra $60 million in the FY2024 budget that will cover additional UH-60 Black Hawks for the Army National Guard. The army’s FY2024 budget request indicates the service had already planned to spend $736 million on 24 Black Hawks this year.

extra $1.1 billion in revenue to provide the USAF with new C-130J tactical transports. In 2023, 16 of the four-engined turboprops were funded at a total cost of $1.7 billion.

$451 million Congress approved to buy additional F-35 stealth fighters and spare engines.

RTX's P&W's Engine Core Upgrade (ECU) programme for the F135 was fully-funded – with a total of $497 million

Congress also effectively ended a long-running debate over the future of F-35 propulsion, terminating a programme to develop an entirely new engine and prohibiting the integration of “an alternative on any F-35 aircraft”.

The latest budget also includes some $2.3 billion to further development of a sixth-generation fighter under the USAF's Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD). That funding will also support the development of so-called collaborative combat aircraft – cheaper, autonomous jets the air force hopes to field in large numbers to support the NGAD fighter aircraft.

https://www.flightglobal.com/defence/co ... 30.article

[Pathfinder]

Fotaza de B1 en Morón. Andan unos cuantos estos días por allí.